Escape Plan: Dreaming My Way Out of the Projects by Lynette CharityRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3 mbOverview: Lynette Charity’s grit, grief, and gratitude will have readers rooting for this timeless memoir about growing up in the early ’60s South and overcoming all the odds against her to become a doctor in a time when the idea […]
How Nations Escape Poverty: Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity by Rainer Zitelmann / Narrated by Jonathan YenRequirements: .MP3 player, 191 mbOverview: During the twentieth century, Vietnam and Poland were both victims not only of devastating wars, but also of socialist planned economies that destroyed whatever war hadn’t already. In 1990, Vietnam was still […]
We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape by Tricia HerseyRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 106 MBOverview: Escape from grind culture and dehumanizing systems with this visionary guide from the author of the New York Times bestseller Rest Is Resistance. We don’t believe we are worthy of rest unless we burn ourselves out to accomplish it. Our thinking […]
Escape for Christmas by Phillipa AshleyRequirements: .ePUB reader, 508 KBOverview: Sophie used to adore everything about Christmas. Hot chocolate and velvet bows, fairy lights and mince pies. Until the December her fiancé jilted her. Since then, Sophie opened Sunnyside Hotel, a quaint guesthouse nestled deep in the Cumbrian countryside. And, though it might be winter […]
Greatest Escapes of World War II by Col. Robert Barr SmithRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.5 MBOverview: Throughout WWII, thousands of Allied prisoners dreamed of outwitting their captors and returning to war against the Axis. Their ingenuity knew no bounds: they went over the barbed wire surrounding them and under it as well; they built tunnels of […]